Computer Animation Arts

It's a very long time since I last had to go 'school uniform shopping' or buy a new pencil case in preparation for the new academic year, and yet September always gets me the same way: that unmistakeable mix of excitement-meets-melancholy.  The Summer is ending - sigh - which means  it's time to rev the engines and jump-start the old grey matter and thus prepare for another incredibly busy and productive year on CG Arts & Animation . What better way to ease us all into the prospect of a new semester of CGAA at UCA Rochester than with a freshly-minted edition of the PWTM boasting a whole host of good news stories from the CG Arts community and a round-up of what our students have been doing while not a) watching the Olympics or b) reading Fifty Shades of Grey ... Unless you've been living on the 'lost isle of no-internet' these past few months, you'll know that July's  New Designers 2012 was a great success for CGAA - and it di...

The achievements of our 2012 Graduates continue to shine.  This month's issue of 3D Artist Magazine has a few words of praise for the New Designers 2012 CGAA Team in the Community section.

With swathes of daffodils nodding optimistically in the still chilly breeze, supermarket shelves creaking under the weight of over-priced chocolate eggs, and the south-east but days away from its first hose-pipe ban, it can mean only one thing - Spring has sprung.   As Tolstoy once wrote,  “Spring is the time of plans and projects" and right now on CG Arts, plans and projects are gathering a-pace as the semester accelerates and the weeks fly by with alarming celerity.  Einstein was right enough - time is relative.  What is it about this half of the academic year?  It is the March hare to the autumn term's tortoise - and it's off and running across the grass, heart-thumping, bobtail-bouncing, crying, 'I'm late, I'm late!' and looking always at its watch... Hard to believe in just a few weeks the semester ends, and in its wake comes thoughts of caps and gowns and cathedrals, of London shows and private views, and of the world 'out there'...